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Re: Release candidate?

 

I believe Garth indicated the 10.11 issues might actually be an issue in OS
X itself.

Adam Wolf
On Jul 28, 2015 3:32 PM, "Shane Burrell" <shaneb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> One item of consideration on OSX is that current legacy canvas is broken
> on the 10.11 Betas 1-4.  With pending 10.11 release a KiCad release won't
> work on 10.11.  This was marked to medium but if 10.11 is important it
> needs to be marked as high.
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> 2015-07-28 21:11 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > On 7/28/2015 3:00 PM, Jon Neal wrote:
>> >> This is mostly to Wayne since he controls the releases.
>> >>
>> >> Now that the boost polygon code has been committed what is left for
>> >> kicad RC1? Any large roadblocks left?
>> >
>> > I have to look through the bug tracker to see if there are any more
>> > segfault and memory leak bug report and the latest Coverity scan to see
>> > if there are any remaining errors with high severity that need to be
>> > addressed.  Once this number goes to 0, then we can start thinking about
>> > a stable release candidate.
>>
>> For what I can see there are only two bugs left tagged as high, where
>> one of them is a potential duplicate of another bugs which was marked
>> as fix committed. And the other one is "just" an asssert.
>>
>> There are some other segfaults reported, but the reporters have not
>> provided enough information to really describe the bug properly.
>>
>> >>
>> >> Also, several people in IRC have been talking and are really hoping
>> that
>> >> the release candidates will be debug builds to help fix bugs faster.
>> Any
>> >> chance of that happening?
>> >
>> > This depends on our package developers.  I'm all for debug builds if it
>> > will help to speed along the debugging.  I think Adam is providing
>> > nightly debug builds for OSX.  The other platform package developers
>> > feel free to chime in here.
>> >
>> > All of this being said, I think we are getting close.  I'm going to try
>> > to put together a list of action items that need to be addressed for a
>> > stable release candidate.  Hopefully I can get to that this weekend.
>>
>> I am packaging the windows builds, but I have not yet made it run
>> smooth on Jenkins yet, so I am still building them manually once in a
>> while. I tried to make a debug build, but I did not have enough space
>> left on my device. This is the reason for there being no windows
>> builds configured as debug yet.
>>
>> I am definitely for nightlies are debug builds.
>>
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